Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., March %, 1887.

(snao;s, Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., March %, 1887.
Senstor Riddlebereer is still in the city,
and will, he says, remain mere prooaoly
week longer. The Senator, in short talk
with the GAZErTEs correspondent this
morning. said the account Of the removal OF
one Senate employee and the appointment
of another, in this spondence yesterday
was correct in every particular, but could with
truth have been made more sensational. The
Senator, in reference to the latest PROPOSE
ton that has been made by me Virginia
bondholders for the settlement OF the Nlr-
GINA debt, says he would favor the appoint
ment of commission to treat with the
creditors, as the proposition is polite one,
and ne would always treat any such pro-
position politely. The action of the COM
mission, he said, of course could not be bind
ing except when ratified by the people. he
said that with the Tucker bill prohibiting
suits for less than $1,000 to be transferred
from State 10 u courts, he thought the
State now had the settlement CT her debt IN
her own hands, and should settle it ut once.
He said he disapproved entirely of the &C
ton of the republicans in the legislature IN
holding oil and saying the settlement OF the
debt was none of their business. 1t was
peculiarly their business, aud that II
he could settle it, it would DC gio-
ry enough for him, and ID be ena'
bled to do so he would willingly resign his
seat in the U. S. Senate, especially as the
possession Of that seat had brought him in
debt and had caused him continuous and
various sorts oftrouble TheRiddleberger bill,
he said, was not a perfect bill by any means,
and he had never claimed it TO be, bat it
could be made perfect He said he thought
that Malone aud Sherman and Evarts and
Others had scheme, which they intended
to propose at what they may consider an
appropriate time, by which Virginia should
bring q suit in equity against West Virginia
for her share of Virginia's debt, with the
idea that as West Virginia would be unable
to pay it, the United States would, but that
he didn't have much confidence in its sue.
cess. The Senator is apparently in perfect
health. He has no better opinion OF Gen.
eral Malone now than he has had for some
time past He says Sergeant at Arms Can.
aday, of the Senate, has promised him that
Capt Asa Rogers's appointment was only
| made for three months.
Respecting the sudden and mysterious
| disappearance of Mr.. Adams, the book
keeper Of the Star, it is said to day that that
disappearance Immediately followed the
service of the notice upon him that Mrs.
Van Auken. of Alexandria, had sued him
for the recovery of certain property, and
that he has with him the will and papers by
which her claim to that property can
be established, and which his wife
had distracted from the safe deposit compa-
nv. 1t is also said that young woman
employed in one of the departments here
disappeared on the same day that Mr..
Adams did, but not that she went with him.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Col. r. w. Mayo, of Westmoreland county,
| Va. republican member of the Virginia
legislature, who was admitted yesterday to
| the practice Of the district court for this
city, before which he has suit. The Col.
onel says his republican colleagues in the
Virginia legislature don't think they have
any thing to do with the settlement of the
| Virginia debt, as they settled it soma years
ago by the Rddleberger bill and will stand
by that settlement He says he doesn't
think his democratic colleagues will APP
| point a commission to treat with the Eng
lish bondholdars. He says his party will
hold no State convention this year, and
that General Malone will continue TO be
| the chairman of their State committee. he
Gays bis party will not consent TO be con-
trolled by Gen. Malone in the future as in
the past, and that the General has learned
some sense since his last campaign, and
will not attempt to pursue his old way. The
party, he says, will treat the General as one
Of its trusted leaders, but that he must take
his chance of preferment with the rest OF
them, bu. that BE has no doubt if the re-
publicaps carry the legislature the Gen
eral will be reelected 10 the Senate. be
said there was no readjuster party in the
State now, that party having become part
and parcel of the national republican party.
The President has appointed James Il.
Waggener to be Surgeon U. 5. N, Leeds c.
Kerr to be Passed Assistant Paymsster U.
S. N, B. c. Gowing to be Chief Engineer
U. s. N, and Carroll Mercer, to ba 1st
Lieutenant D. S. NJ. c.
The appropriation Of $l47,74 to indemni.
fy Chinese subjects for losses sustained at
Rock Springs, Wyoming, has been placed
to the credit Of the disbursing officer of the
Department of State for payment to the
Chinese Minister at Washington as the rep
resentative of the Chinese Government.
John D. Harrison, formerly Of Alexandria q
| clerk in Browns restaurant here has sued son
of OK Senator Fair for abusing him, placing q
pistol at his head and threatening to kill him
| he lays his damages at $50 600
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